Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-02-19
THE NEW SOUTH.
Growth of Manufacturing Interests-Rec-
ord of the Past Week.


BALTIMORE, MD, February lS.- The
Manufacturers Record for the week pub
fishes additional statements OF the growth
of the manufacturing interests in the
South, nearly all of which are enterprises
which originated during the past week.
The EtOwah Iron and Manganese Com
pany, Of Atlanta, Ca, organized last week
for the development of II, 600 acres of iron
and manganese lands near Gainesville,
Georgia, has decided to build a 81, ,000. 600
steel rail mill either at Atlanta
or Cartersyille, which, with enc exception,
will be the only steel rail mill i'll the
South. This company will also build four
iron furnaces. A Montgomery, Ala, com.
pany has purchased los, 900 acres OF min
eral and agricultural land III Alabama and
will develop manufactures of various
kinds. A $1,000, 600 coal, coke and iron
company has been organized in Alabama
by capitalists of that State and COnnecti-
cut Contracts have been closed for NUM-
ber of furnaces previously rojected-three
at Sheffield Tor 1864, ,OO0, which is said to
be the largest single contract ever made in
the United States for building furnaces,
one near Birmingham, and two at Nash
vile.
Among other large companies reported
for the week there were a SiOO, 600 bridge
company and $500, 900 land improvement
company at Fl. Smith, Ark; 81 ,OOO, 900
company organized in Memphis to develop
mineral lands in Arkansas; a $500, 600
land and improvement company at Bir-
mingham; a $500, 900 company of the same
kind at Gainesville, Ga. one of $3.50, 600
at Meridtn, Miss; one at Duck Hill,
Miss, and one at Clarksville, Tenn. a
Ga; 100000 cOopcrage company
Mt Lexington, KY; a 100000 quarry
company ut New Orleans; a 500, coo car
works and a 81, 900, 600 gas works at Bal
timOre, and probably $1,000 900 sugar
refinery at the same place; two mining
companies, one of $l00, 900 and the other
$500, 900 capital stock, in North Carolina;
n S75, 900 cotton mill company in Char
lotte, n. c., and one in Columbus, Miss;
a 800, 900 marble quarrying company in
Tennessee; a $50, 900 agricultural imple-
ment company ut Admission, Ala; steel
bloomery and gas works ut the same place,
and so, 600 soap company at Wheeling,
w. Va.
The Norfolk and Western Railroad has
contracted for the extension OF its Cripple
Creek branch to ore land lately purchased
by Philadelphia capitalists who have con-
tracted for hundred ton furnace at Pull
aski, Va The same road has awarded
contracts for extending its road through
Mercer county, w. Va, which includes
cutting 1900 feet tunnel through
mountain on q ten foot vein of coal This
extension will carry this road to a 10000
acre of coal land owned by
Pennsylvania capitalists, who will
open coal mines and build 800 coke ovens
In Texas, where but little coal mining has
ever been done, n number OF mines are
now being opened and new companies are
being organized. 4 large number of COM
panies have been chartered and there is
great activity in railroad construction. In
all other lines of industry there is remark
able activity, and in all parts Of the South
many new enterprises, including flour
mills, saw mills, furniture factories, brick
works, machine shops, etc, were reported
during the week.